Mechanism for constructing a wheel.



` DRADroRD 'New York, have invented certain new and useful Improver'ments in Mechanism for Constructing a Wheel, of which the following is a specification, referencev being had therein to thevaccompanying drawing, this ease being in'part a continuation of my application for patent for improvementsA in wheels, filed August 29, 191,0, Serial NoQ 579,491.

Mv invention relatesto the construction of a wheel and'consists, in the mechanism hereinafter pointed out and claimed-7 rangedlayersof woven fabric circumferen-A tiallyand radially compressed into a commass in its connected pact mass, and. to utilize the' permanently united l body-formingy and hub-supporting members of the wheel, .t 0 constitute a permanent binder,for vand maintaining said condition to form la permanent tire.

-A further object of my ,invention v1s to form a wheelhaving-acentral hub with a circumferential ange'on the hub and pro- 'viding' a pair of metaldisks which are se.4 cured to the circumferential flange onthe 'hub and so constructed lasto engageand support the entire inner'- diameter of a ltire composed of a plurality of sections of woven -fabric radially and circumferentially compressed and the tireshaped on its lopposing faces so that the disks may engage the opposing edges of the vtire andl at the Sametime furnishing a permanent seat centrally located for the entire internal diameter of the'tire.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows a front View ofvmy wheel, Fig. 2 represents a -ver-4 tical cross section `of the wheel; Fig.V 1A represents va `wheel 'of lsmaller diameter, and vertical Across section of Having describedence tothe 4figures illustrating the. same, I

will now proceed to describe the".construcf tion in detail.

' I provide central-hublilhaving' acentral bore 2 with `a circumferential flange 3, and a pair of disks 4, 4, which are securedto gether at 5 and secured to the circumferen- AirnsforFrol H. DIVINE,l oF'UTIqA', nw-'YonmAssIoNon roDIvINE :BROTHERS-ColvirANY, or UrrIcA, Nrwgonxr. coRronAT'IoN or4 NEW YORK,

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tial flange at 6, 6.' The disks are formed at their outer circumferential'portions 7. tofit the contour'of the'inner diameter of the.

"tire and form a 'central support'.

The tire -is composed of avv plurality of sections of woven fabric -cut' .onga' bias to-the weave thereof, and'placed side by 'sidecross- 'I wise of the tread of the tire, and radially i' compact mass, and provided'upon its opposite faces with grooves 8,8;

`and circumferentially compressed into a f The outer annular" edge portions ofthe l 'disks are bent at right angles forming flanges9, 9, to engage the grooves 8, 8,111 L the opposite faces of 'the'tire Any other tion; When these' disksl are lbrought tof.

`modeofsecuring the flanges-to the oppo-1 site faces of. the tire'can be employed without departing from the spirit of my inven;-`

grooves and the disks are secured togetherj circumferential flange= .on the vThe-tireis preferably formedcyli-ndrical inner surface extendingthrough,

out the full lengthof the ltire fromone flat -end face thereof to the other and usually and ofthe same diameter and located ap-4 proximately midway between theinn'er and outer'surfa'ces of`the'tire. In the particular embodiments illustrated, the circulariange is formed .integral with the cylindrical hubv and is located about'midway thelength of the hub, and the twowheel-body-formngdisks orplates are duplicates. with center openings receiving the hub so thatthe cen-i ter edges of the disks circumferentially fit around the hub. In. the particular examples illustrated, the outer circumferential'. portion of each disk is bent outwardly approxi# 'mately' atfright angles to the body portion of the disk, to form a cylindrical rim or seat approximately equal-to one half the length of the tire,- and at theouter edge of thev rim 7. the disk is again vbent approximately 'at right angles to forman annular flat radial wall to fit an end face of the tire,f.and at the outer edge of this wall, the disk isbent'inwardly approximately at' right angles to 7, of approximately the samel diameter asl the inner diameter of the tire and in widthl form 'the cylindrical flange 9, of less width i. than and spaced outwardly from andconf' centric with the rim 7. A

The cylindrical. rims 7, of a pair of disks are designed (either alone or in connection with the interposed flange of the hub) to form a cylindrical seat continuous throughout the full length of the innerl surface of the tire and on which said surface ofthe tire tightly fits and which supports and' faces of the cylindrical flanges 9, of the inner faces of the flanges.

radial portions of the disks that fit the end disks and hence'said flanges brace the outer portions of the tire against radial compression land in turn are backed and supported by the cylindrical rim 7,;and the portions of the tire interposed between the rim and the The outer flat faces of the tire not only hold the tire againstvlongitudinal expansion as well as movement on the rims but 'also serve as protecting guards therefor and brace and support the flanges.'

In the particular examples of my invention illustrated, the wheel bodies are internally closed so that each disk is' braced throughoutv its radial length from the hub to the cylindrical rim 7, either by tightly fitting against the hub flange and the opposite disk as in Figs. 1 and 2, or by tightly fitting the hub flange, as in Figs. 1A' and 2B. l

In Figs. l and 2, the radial length of the hub flange is less than the radial distance from the hub to the cylindrical rim 7 and Vthe two disks fitthe opposite faces of the hub yflange and are rigidly riveted to said flange while vfrom the edge of the hub flange to the rim 7 the disks are brought together j and their inner side faces vare held tightly abutting bythe permanent rivets 5. In

` Figs. lA and 2B, the circumferential edge of the flange is c vlindrical and concentric with the wheel axis and the cylindrical inner surface of the tireand forms a portion of the cylindrical rim onv which the tire is seated, being interposed between and of thesame diameter as the cylindrical rim portions 7, of the two disks. In this form, the disks tightly fit the hub flanges the full radial distance from the hub to the cylindrical rim and are rigidly secured thereto by permanent rivets. Y

In making the complete wheel unit, the compressed fibrous mass constituting the tire is compacted to the desired density in a temporary binder and after the tire has beenproperly shaped and the grooves have been Reticut in its ends?, the hub and rigid body forming disks are'applied theretoand per- I -manently secured together to form the permanent binder that maintains the fibrous approXim'ately non-elastic permanent tire in its compacted condition.. The temporary binder is then removed. y

I do not wish to limit all features of the invention to the particular body forming and hub members disclosed, but specifically the particularembodiments illustrated are of peculiar advantage and utility infa wheel embodying an approximately non' --elastic dense compacted fibrous material tire.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. As -a new article of manufacture, a

truck wheel or the like, consisting essentially of a ring composed of transversely arranged layers of woven fabric compressed together circumferentially into a hard compact mass and having grooves cut in its opposite side faces, in combination with a permanent binder for said ring permanently holding the same circumferentially con tracted and in tire forming shape and condition, said binder consisting of a pair of opposing wheel-body forming and hub-supporting members internally supporting said ring at its inner surface and having flanges fitting said grooves, said ring being held compressed between and by said permanent members, meanspermanently locking said members together and to' said ring, and a hub carried by said members, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a truck wheel or the like, consisting essentially of .a ring composed of transversely.- arranged layers of woven fabric circumferentially and radially compressed into a compact mass, in combination with a perlmanent binder maintaining said mass in its porting members, and means for rigidly.

locking said members in permanent position, substantially as described.`

3. A truck wheel consl'sting'essentially of a'ring having acylindrical inner surface andannular grooves inits ends. and composed Iof transversely-arranged `layers of woven fabric circumferentially and radially compressed into av compact mass, in combina tion with la permanent binder maintaining said mass in its compressed condition Ito form a permanent tire, "saidy permanent binder forming a cylindrical rim fitting said cylindrical surface of the tire throughout its length and flanges fitting said grooves,

said binder composed of a pair of similarv rigid side disks, a hub extending through said disks and formed with an exterior an nular flange between said disk, and means .withacircumferential ange,"apair of side..

'A full length of4 said innen-surface, said per-f..

rigidly fastening said disks to said flange toV form a vpermanent wheel body and hub, sub-l stantially as described.

- 4. A truck Wheel consisting essentially of a' ring composed of transversely-arranged fibrous material layers compressed together circumferentiallly into a hard compact mass- A and having a cylindrical innersurface, fiat arallel end surfaces, and cylindrical grooves in'its ends concentric with said surface; 'in combination with a permanent 'binder for said rlng holding the same 'contracted in tire forming v'shape and condition and forming a I cylindrical rim on which said cylindrical surface of the tire is supported throughout jits full length, andgannular radial'walls `fitting ysaid end surfaces, and. cylindrical flanges' in said grooves; saidper'manent binderv ing formed bythe permanent body and hub O fzthefwheel composed-of' a hub provideddisks arrangedon said hub, and means .fixing 'said'disks'to and against-said fiange,"sub 'stantially as described.

. truck wheel conslsting essentially 4 ai ring composed ,off fibrous material'lcompressed into a hard compact maas tolforni a permanent tire, incoinbmation with a per` manent binder holding said mass 1n 'itscom- 4pactedfpermanent tireform and condition,

' said mass having cylindrical grooves in its ends and al cylindrical inner surface, said permanent binder forming cylindrical anges fitted in saidgrooves and a cylindrical rim. fitting and extending throughout the manent binder forming the permanent body I" and'hub'of the wheel and'being composed of a hub having a circumferential Bange and opposite side disks between which said iange is located and to which itis riveted.

" .y 6. 'A truck wheel consistin of anfapproximately 4'noni-elastic ring o fibrous mass, 1n combmatlon with a permanent a` v compacted bifida holding and maintaining said 'mass compacted in permanent tire form and con-` dition, said ring having end grooves, said permanent binder providing a rim on which the inner surfacel of said tire 'is seated throughout its length and side flanges engagingsaid grooves, and beingformed by .the body of the wheel composed of ahub having an exterior circumferential flange and a pair of opposite side disks onsaid hub and fitting said flange .and rigidly securedthereto, each vdisk having a radial body portion and an out turned rim' portion having a flange, each disk at its inner side face itightly tting'against and beinglbraced by the re' maining radial portion of the wheel body from the h ub to the rim, substantially as described.

7. Av truckwheel consisting of'a solid compact permanent tire, in lcombination with a permanent binder therefor consisting of a` h 1`1b having an exterior 'circumferential flanges gripping the opposite ends of the tire and valso'havmg rim'portions in con- .xxtinuation of said cylindrical edge of they hub flange and in connection therewith forming .a rim on which the inner surface of said tire is seated. throughout its length, .and

means rigidly securing said disks and hub flange together, substantially as described.

'- Intestimony whereof I hereunto affix my 'signature inthe. presence of two witn asses.

- BRADFORD'H.- DIVINE.

l Witnesses:

HELEN M. MoLoUGHLIN, ELEANOR T. DE GioRGi. 

